Fruit & Nuts

This beautiful deciduous, perennial, climbing, woody vine belongs to the Schisandraceaefamily. that grows about 9 m (29ft 6in) tall. The plant is found growing in mixed forests, especially onthe periphery, also by streams and brooks, and usually on sandy soils. It can grow around 30 ft. long(9m). Common names are Chinese magnolia vine, Five-flavor-fruit, Schisandra, Schizandra,Schizandra berry and lemon wood. Bearing small lightly fragrant magnolia-like flowers, it will produce striking crimson berries with brownstems (1 m of new growth a year) and can either twine round the support or spread along the ground.Leaves are alternately arranged, tough, glossy, dark

There are many types of maple trees, but only one sugar maple (Aceraceae Maple family). All maple trees produce sap which contains sugar, and most can be used to make syrup, but the sugar maple is considered the best for syrup production. Sugar maple leaves will have a dark green color on the outside, and a lighter green on the underside.In the fall, sugar maple leaves will lose their green color and take on a beautiful orange, yellow, or red.Sugar maple leaves are segmented into 5 lobes. There should be three large, main lobes and onesmaller lobe on either

Mulberry trees are large members of the Moraceae family that range in height from30-50 feet.While some mulberries come in the form of small bushes, the fruit-bearing types are large trees. They areknown to be hardy, self-pollinating, deciduous trees. The Morus alba (white mulberry) and Morus rubra (red mulberry) hybrids (such as the Downing and Illinois Everbearing) are known for their large, sweet, fruit and hardiness.

A perennial and deciduous shrub in the Genus of Viburnum from the Family Adoxaceae. It can be large shrub (more than 8 feet), upright compact tree (10-15 feet), or small tree (15-25 feet) with a form arching shape and multi-stemmed, thicket-forming appearance. Nannyberry is known for its dark, lustrous green leaves which turn maroon-red in the fall. Then there are the ivory flowers that appear in late spring, flat-topped inflorescences as wide as your palm with its groups of numerous tiny blossoms. These flowers develop into a colorful mixture of different colored fruits, some light green, others pale yellow

Perennial deciduous Wild Raisin are generally multi- stemmed bushes that can grow to 6 ft tall by 6 ft wide, though they’re often smaller. The Honeysuckle Family known as Caprifoliaceae is the shrub’s classification.Some leaves are serrated but this plant is distinguished from other unlobed viburnumsby for lacking star-shaped hairs on underside of leaf and having leaf veins, which branch and reform before reaching the margins. It produces showy white flower cluster and the fruit is a drupe with an elliptic stone and sweet pulp, blue-black, 6 to 12 mm. The Bark is grey or brown and covered with

Oak is in the genus Quercus of the beech family, Fagaceae. Old World and American oaks having 6 to 8 stamens in each floret, acorns that mature in one year and leaf veins that never extend beyond the margin of the leaf. White oaks have larger, rounded lobes on the leaves, and a red oak’s leaves have jagged lobes. Oak is the most common of all the hardwoods.

As a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, the olive tree is a slow-growing evergreen tree with a short trunk, vast crown, numerous branches, and oblong, silvery-green leaves up to 4 inches (10 cm) long. The height may reach 50 feet (15.25 m) but most grow to about 25 feet (7.6 m). Dwarfs go to about 10 feet (3 m) tall. The buds turn into racemes where four petaled white feather-like and strong fragranced flowers appear. The olive has a small pit.

A small, deciduous tree that yields the largest fruit native to North America. It’s part of the Annonaceae family, which is the largest family of the magnolia order. Pawpaw trees can grow to a height of about 25 feet and feature maroon-colored blossoms with 6 petals in spring. (When grown in shady and protected areas of established forests, they only get to be 2 to 12 feet (0.6 m to 3.7 m) tall.) The leaves are dark green, shiny, and oval shaped with pointy ends. They can grow up to 1 inches in length. In the fall, foliage turns

The self-fertile deciduous tree belongs to the Rosaceae family and the Prunus genus. It can grow up to 25 feet (7.6 m) tall. ripening May through August. As an angiosperm, their seeds are enclosed within the fruit that grows on them. The fruits flesh is yellow, with bright red touches closest to the stone. They have a soft texture.

A tree of the genus Pyrus, in the family Rosaceae which bears the pears as fruits having a sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit. The trees usually live 50 years, although they might have shorter or longer life spans depending on how well cared for they are. It’s one of the most important fruit trees in the world, the common pear is cultivated in all temperate-zone countries of both hemispheres.